pleas
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Through May, prosecutors had charged fewer than four dozen people with crimes related to noncitizen voting, ProPublica’s analysis of DOJ data and federal court filings shows, getting convictions or guilty pleas in 14 cases.
From Salon ● Aug. 15, 2026
Administration officials have so far rebuffed Ford’s pleas on the issue.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 15, 2026
Over the course of months, investigators made a couple of detentions and conducted a few searches as the Guthrie family made a series of emotional pleas to the kidnappers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2026
They are legal filings, but they are also declarations or pleas to a judge: The government simply cannot keep this person locked away or trapped in servitude.
From Slate ● Jul. 27, 2026
They started appearing immediately, everywhere in New York; stapled, taped, thumbtacked all over the city, photographs and photocopies, flyers, letters, sticky notes, and desperate pleas.
From "Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story" by Nora Raleigh Baskin
